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Cultural effects rather than a bilingual advantage in cognition: A review and an empirical study.

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cam.issuedOnline2018-08-22
datacite.issupplementedby.doi10.17863/CAM.25865
dc.contributor.authorSamuel, SH
dc.contributor.authorRoehr-Brackin, Karen
dc.contributor.authorPak, Hyensou
dc.contributor.authorKim, Hyunji
dc.contributor.orcidSamuel, Steven [0000-0001-7776-7427]
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-30T00:32:21Z
dc.date.available2018-11-30T00:32:21Z
dc.date.issued2018-09-16
dc.description.abstractThe bilingual advantage hypothesis contends that the management of two languages in the brain is carried out through domain-general mechanisms, and that bilinguals possess a performance advantage over monolinguals on (non-linguistic) tasks that tap these processes. Presently, there is evidence both for and against such an advantage. Interestingly, the evidence in favor has been thought strongest in children and older adults, leading some researchers to argue that young adults might be at peak performance levels, and therefore bilingualism is unable to confer an improvement. We conducted a large-scale review of the extant literature and found that the weight of research pointed to an absence of positive evidence for a bilingual advantage at any age. We next gave a large number of young adult participants a task designed to test the bilingual advantage hypothesis. Reasoning from the literature that young adults from an East Asian (Korean) culture would likely outperform those from a Western (British) culture, we also compared participants on this factor. We found no evidence for a bilingual advantage, but did find evidence for enhanced performance in the Korean group. We interpret these results as further evidence against the bilingual advantage hypotheses.
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dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.33454
dc.identifier.eissn1551-6709
dc.identifier.issn0364-0213
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/286140
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell
dc.publisher.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12672
dc.subjectBilingual advantage
dc.subjectCode-switching
dc.subjectInhibitory control
dc.subjectKorean culture
dc.subjectSimon task
dc.subjectAdolescent
dc.subjectAdult
dc.subjectCognition
dc.subjectCulture
dc.subjectFemale
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectMale
dc.subjectMultilingualism
dc.subjectRepublic of Korea
dc.subjectUnited Kingdom
dc.subjectYoung Adult
dc.titleCultural effects rather than a bilingual advantage in cognition: A review and an empirical study.
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-07-24
prism.publicationDate2018
prism.publicationNameCognitive Science
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2018-09-16
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review
rioxxterms.versionAM
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1111/COGS.12672

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